Recent research has attested the existence of different types of cohabitation in Latin America. It is well documented that, along with a historic cohabitation, driven by poverty, modern consensual unions are booming in the region. These modern types can be explained by the framework of the...

This study investigates gender equality in terms of decision making in Latin American families. A step-by-step multi-group latent class analysis (MGLCA) is applied to extract the construct of gender equality from DHS data. Its cross-cultural validation for seven Latin American countries...